Noida and Greater Noida will soon get a share of windmill energy generated in the state following an agreement signed by PVVNL and the central government in the presence of Union power minister Piyush Goyal.

As the state is facing a major power deficit of 4,000 megawatt, the agricultural consumers complain of major load shedding hampering the power needs of residential, commercial and agricultural consumers in the district.

Within an hour of conveying birthday wishes to Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday, senior Congress leader and former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda lambasted the government for serious lapses in electricity purchase which according to him could draw its nemesis.

Over 300 students of two girls schools were rushed to hospital on Saturday morning after they complained of dizziness and headache following gas leak from a chemical container near their schools in south Delhi, police said.

Special task force on Friday examined two more fuel stations (both under Indian Oil Corporation) in the city for rigging. Large-scale anomalies were detected at Aliganj Service Station, the fuel pump located near Kendriya Bhawan at Purania crossing.Out of 20 nozzles used to dispense fuel, 11 -the highest number so far -were found tampered with.

Sri Lanka will only lease out oil tanks to India under the proposed deal to jointly operate a strategic oil facility in the eastern port district of Trincomalee, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said.

The Centres process of selecting clean cities needed to be changed, a green body said today, claiming that the three toppers in its latest cleanliness survey had adopted environmentally "unsustainable" waste management practices.